To be honest Austin, I did try it once, on a spare hard drive, and found it to be somewhat unstable... For example, I tried to close a window that had frozen, clicked twice and clicked "End Task," and it crashed Explorer as expected, but what I didn't expect is for it to bring down another task, which forced the whole system to shut down, and then later on, I find out that a couple files are damaged? Eh, sorry dude... For what it does, it does okay, and it's there when I need it.... But I'm already tweaking my XP installs all to crap anyway.

EDIT: Oh, this is just great.  Now AVG claims that MSN has tracking cookies in it.. I clicked to have one moved to the vault accidentally, but now it seems to be screwed up. I even tried restoring it and it doesn't work... This is just peaches. I hope I can reinstall MSN, even though it'll take me two hours to reinstall all my custom emoticons. I'm one screwup away from walking away from computer techieness... Thanks AVG, you PIECE of GARBAGE!

EDIT 2: Okay, I reinstalled MSN, and disabled tracking cookies in resident shield in AVG.  Fortunately all my emoticons, display pictures, and the one background I was able to reinstall, all were still there...

UPDATE: It's working! I got it all working last night! Honestly, this was something I wasn't sure I would be able to do... But this is a big morale booster for me. :^.^: It's actually done, so now I can take it anywhere I might go. The freedom that this gives, it's amazing... :^.^:

Good luck on getting your problems resolved.  I'm sure many of us know how big hassles computers can be at times.

Yeah... Thanks everyone. Really.

I think it's something misconfigured, somewhere... There's no other explanation as to why it doesn't work right on my laptop versus my desktop. I will stop at nothing to make this work, including a reformat, or exposing any security vulnerability that may be necessary. Call me obsessive, but I want this to work. It USED to work, back before I got the laptop. Used to work just fine. Now it doesn't... Looks like I'll have to play blindman's bluff with all my technological know-how until it either works or I give up.

EDIT: Here, this hint should make things easier for someone to help me out: there is usually a variable delay between sending a message and being signed out, and I get it bounced back at me... I'm ready to format the laptop for the billionth time...

EDIT 2: Matter of fact, that's almost too easy now, so that's what I'm gonna do. To all my MSN contacts, I'm sorry, but you won't hear from me for a while, until this is resolved. I'm burning an emergency backup DVD of what I have on this drive that isn't backed up, and formatting... This is ridiculous, seeing as it's about the fourth or fifth time that I've done it now...

Okay, I have just about HAD it with this stupid laptop...! It's been an uphill battle to get this piece of junk running, and keep it running! Sure, it's my best machine now, but dang, how much crap do I have to go through to get it to work properly??! :mad Now, I can't maintain a stable connection to MSN, AT ALL... I'm doing my best to diagnose the problem, but it's just NOT working, and, I'm ready to throw up my hands! I'm pissed off, and not gonna take this crap anymore! I'm sorry to those of you who talk with me via MSN, but it's rather rocky right now. This transition over to this machine has been one long uphill battle after another, and I for one am so sick and tired of it, that I'm actually contemplating just saying screw it with computers, unless some miracle happens and I'm able to maintain a stable connection. Doesn't seem to happen on my desktop, so why here? Geez.... And yeah, I was serious about the "giving up" part - if I can't fix it, then I'll just say screw it...

Painkiller...  Fairly recent game, good ol' classic FPS gameplay, with none of the questing stuff of modern FPSes. Time to sharpen my skills.

No one. I'd rather have them remove Ruby & Chomper again. It doesn't feel thesame.

Meh..  I always felt they were welcome additions to the series...  To be honest, I felt I could really relate with Ruby in some aspects...  I dunno how I'd feel either way, but if too many characters get added, it does have a shallower feel to it, I'll agree there...  But hey, LBT is LBT to me.  I know that most of ya can't roll with that, but I'm a weirdo...

Thanks for the comments on the videos, guys. Another playthrough coming soon...

Okay, I made these about 3 months ago, but didn't upload them until now... Two games from my childhood, from the NES, played through from beginning to end, no lives lost.

WARNING: Minor violent content. Just posting for the sake of courtesy; really, it's nothing too bad.

Contra:
Part 1
Part 2

Super C: (a month (or more) of trial and error went into this one! xD)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Hey there, Sableye.  It's been a long time since I greeted folks, so, here's an official welcome from me. Welcome to the GOF! Lots of nice friendly folks around here indeed.

I'm testing it right now, despite the VRAM in my laptop only being 128 MB. Seems to be installing okay so far. : There's several things I'll be testing, for a couple people, and giving them my feedback.